Anne Tardos

Who is Anne Tardos?

Anne Tardos is a poet, visual artist, and composer born in Cannes, France. She lived as a small child in German-occupied Paris, then after the war moved with her parents to Budapest, where she learned Hungarian. The Hungarian revolution resulted in her having then to move to Vienna, where she learned German and attended a French high school. After completing high school, she spent two years in Paris. In 1966 she moved to the United States. Tardos received her education in film and the visual arts, attending the Vienna Film Academy from 1963–65, then the Art Students League of New York, from 1966–70, for which she received grants from the Ford Foundation for the years 1967–70.

Her books of multilingual poems and graphics include The Dik-dik's Solitude: New and Selected Works, A Noisy Nightingale Understands a Tiger's Camouflage Totally, Uxudo, Mayg-shem Fish, and Cat Licked the Garlic.